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Flickr is a website that lets you upload photos, organize them into albums and share them with the world. In order to embed your Flickr photo albums into your Joomla website, you need to use a third-party plugin. Flickr Album Embedding is a free, lightweight plugin designed with this task in mind.

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Open your Web browser and navigate to the Joomla Extensions Directory.

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Type the name “Flickr Album Embedding” without quotation marks into the search box in the top-right corner of the Extensions Directory. Press “Enter” to search.

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Click “Flickr Album Embedding” on the search results screen.

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Click the “Download” button. In most browsers, a pop-up window will appear asking you to select a location on your computer to save your file. Remember where you save the file, as you’ll need it again.

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Log in to the Administrator area of your Joomla website.

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Click “Extensions” on the main Joomla toolbar and select “Install/Uninstall” from the drop-down menu. The “Extension Manager” screen appears.

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Click the “Browse” button in the section labeled “Upload Package File” and locate the Flickr Album Embedding ZIP file you downloaded.

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Double-click the file and press the “Upload File & Install” button. When the plugin has been successfully installed, Joomla will display a confirmation message.

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Click “Extensions” on the main Joomla toolbar and select “Plugin Manager” from the drop-down menu. The Plugin Manager appears.

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Click the plugin labeled “Content – Flickr Album Embedding" to edit its settings.

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Andrew Tennyson has been writing about culture, technology, health and a variety of other subjects since 2003. He has been published in The Gazette, DTR and ZCom. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in history and a Master of Fine Arts in writing.